The National Semiconductor LM 1578 A is a switching regulator which can easily be set up for such dc-to-dc voltage .conversion circuits as the buck, boost, and inverting…
Switching Regulators Using LM 2575 and LM 2577 Switching regulators are available is different circuit configurations including the flyback, feed-forward, push-pull, and non-isolated single-ended or single-polarity types. Also,…
Switching Voltage Regulators All of the voltage regulators we have discussed so far are series regulators, also sometimes called the linear regulators because the pass transistor used in…
Dual Power Supply using LM 320 and LM 340 Bipolar or dual voltage supplies can be easily designed with the help of two 3-terminal regulators. This is shown…
We have already explained in detail about the basics of regulated power supply, voltage regulators and IC voltage regulators. Let us take a look at one of the most…
Three terminal voltage regulators This series is typical of the three-terminal voltage regulators. The block diagram is shown in figure. The built-in reference voltage VREF drives the non-inverting…
Adjustable Voltage Regulators Sometimes variable voltage is required and under such a situation adjustable voltage regulator is used. A number of IC regulators, like LM 317, LM 338,…
A voltage regulator is one of the most widely used electronic circuitry in any device. A regulated voltage (without fluctuations & noise levels) is very important for the…
The efficiency of Zener regulated power supply becomes very low when the load current is high. Under such conditions a Zener controlled transistor is always used for maintaining…
Basically there are two types of transistor voltage regulators. They are (i) Series Voltage Regulators and (ii) Shunt Voltage Regulators. Each type of circuit can provide an output…
A voltage regulator is designed to automatically ‘regulate’ voltage level. It basically steps down the input voltage to the desired level and keeps that in that same level…
6 Volt Regulator using IC 7806 Description Here is the elementary 6V 1A power supply circuit using 7806 IC. The 7806 three-terminal positive voltage regulator is available in…
Adjustable/Variable Voltage Regulator using LM 117 IC A circuit that regulates the output voltage within a desired range and can be adjustable within that range is called an…